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Following their announcement two days ago that they had signed Christer Andersson, Capricorn have finalised a contract with Danish racer Martin Christensen. Martin, who won the recent European Championship warmup race in Sweden with the LAB-C01, was one of the first development drivers for the car having raced it on its debut at the European Championships in Italy last summer. Martin will also the LAB E01 engine as well as Capricorn tires and fuel this season.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

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Having announced his deal with Capricorn yesterday, top electric driver Christer Andersson, has joined team Sirio to power his new chassis’. Pictured above with Sirio’s Gino Voghera, the Associated team driver will participate at the 200mm touring World Championships in Houston as well as the Euros in Gotenborg using the Sirio XXX-V engine.

Source: Lavorazioni Mecchaniche s.r.l.

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Capricorn RC have announced that front running electric touring driver Christer Andersson has signed a 2 year deal with the Italian company to run their LAB-C01 200mm has chassis. The Finnish driver will race the car this year at the World Championships in Houston, Texas, as well as the European Championships in Sweden later in the summer.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

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GQ Products have confirmed that top female racer Sabrina Lechner will run their tires in both the 1/8th and 1/10th classes this season. The Hong Kong based company has already achieved success with this new partnership with Sabrina using their tires to achieve 8th place at the European B Championships in Monaco recently. Very happy with the quality of their products Sabrina is looking forward to continue to use them throughout the season, which will include the EFRA GP in Hiddelsheim and the German Nationals later in the year.

Source: GQ Products [gqproduct.com]

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Last Saturday a number of foreign racers attended the 2nd round of the Spanish Championship, which was also the warm up race for the upcoming European championship next August. A very nice track greeted all the drivers, which was 80% astroturf, and after 5 qualifying rounds Hupo Hönigl claimed the TQ spot in 2wd, followed by the local driver Borja Hernandez and Martin Kreil. The Spaniards Alberto Cano and Miguel Santos in the following spots showed not only they are fast, they had pace enought to fight in the mains with the fast guys.

At the beginning of the first leg of finals Hupo had troubles and went down in the pack, allowing Borja Hernandez to run consistently and take the win. Hupo push so hard in the last laps finishing just behind Borja, while Martin Kreil completed the top 3 followed by Alberto Cano and Cyril Baldini. A2 saw an awesome battle between Hupo and Borja, who swapped positions throughout the whole race, with Borja able to open up a little gap at the end. A crash in the last lap put Hupo down to 3rd, while 2nd went to Cyril Baldini in front of Alberto Cano and Miguel Santos. Despite already taking the overall, Borja decided to race the last main and he and Hupo put on another great show for the crowds. This time the Austrian won without much troubles, 2nd place went to Borja and third to Alberto Cano, showing his speed running so close to the winners.

Final results
1. Borja Hernandez
2. Hupo Hönigl
3. Cyril Baldini
4. Alberto Cano
5. Martin Kreil
6. Miguel Santos
7. David Bustos
8. Javier Agüero
9. Francis Heuga
10. Miguel Koide

Thanks to Pablo Olea for the report.

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